The Food we Eat: Class 1 English · Chapter 7

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Printable worksheet: The Food we Eat

10 exercises (tracing, missing numbers, circling, matching, drawing) to print on A4 in black and white, with the answer key on the last page. Do them after the lesson.

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Lesson text (for parents and teachers)

Every scene's words in order, as Tara reads them after Start: for reading along, or for a child who cannot hear the narration.

Hello, Lasya!
This is Lasya. She lives in Andhra Pradesh.
Nanna is her dad. Avva is her grandma.
Tara: Hello! I am Tara. Let us talk about the food we eat!
Lunch time
It is lunch time at Lasya's school.
Lasya, Charan and Salma open their boxes.
Tara: Who do you eat lunch with? What is in your box?
What is in the boxes?
Lasya has idli. Charan has rice and an egg.
Salma has roti and some fruits today.
Tara: Tap play to open the boxes, one by one!
Food or not food?
We eat food. Can we eat a ball? No!
Activity: Can we eat it? Put each one in the Food basket or the Not food basket.
Let us share
Lasya shares an idli with Salma.
“Thank you, Lasya!” says Salma.
Tara: Salma shares her orange too. Look at them smiling! Do you share your lunch?
f is for food
Food begins with f. So does fruit!
Activity: Trace the letter f. f, f, food!
Nanna's farm
Nanna is a farmer. He grows rice and bananas.
He has bee boxes too. Bees make honey!
Tara: Growing food is hard work. Thank you, farmers!
Avva's cow
Avva has a cow. The cow gives milk.
Milk makes curd. Curd makes butter!
Tara: Tap play: milk, then curd, then butter!
m is for milk
Milk begins with m.
Activity: Trace the letter m. m, m, milk!
At the market
Lasya and Nanna go to the market.
They see fruits, vegetables and fish.
Activity: Market begins with m. Which one begins with m too? Tap it.
Who cooks?
At home, Nanna cooks dinner.
Lasya helps. She puts out the plates.
Tara: Who makes the food in your home? Say their name!
Food shapes
The dosa is round. The burfi is a square.
Tara: Burfi is a sweet. Which sweet do you love best?
Activity: What shape is the sandwich? Tap it.
After the meal
Lasya eats all her food.
Then she picks up her plate.
Tara: We do not waste food. Do you carry your plate to the sink too?
Clap the words
Say laddoo and clap: lad, doo. Two claps!
Say fish and clap: fish. One clap!
Tara: Clap for each part of a word.
One clap or two?
Activity: Say each name and clap. One clap, like fish? Put it with the fish. Two claps, like laddoo? Put it with the laddoo.
Read the words
Look at the first letter of each word.
Activity: Read the words: mango, fish, carrot. Join each picture to its word.
This is, these are
One mango: This is a mango.
Three mangoes: These are 3 mangoes.
Activity: Tap the picture for: These are 2 bananas.
Riddle time!
Listen to the riddle. Who am I?
Activity: I am long and yellow. You peel me before you eat me. Who am I?
One more riddle
Here is one more riddle!
Activity: I am orange and long. I grow under the ground. Who am I?
Bye-bye!
Lasya's family eats dinner together.
Now you have lots of food words!
Tara: Thank you for the food! Bye-bye from Lasya and me!

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Ch 7: The Food we Eat

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Published 10 Oct 2026 · Updated 10 Oct 2026 · All chapters of Mridang · Official NCERT chapter PDF ↗

Chapters in Mridang

Chapter 1: Two Little Hands
Chapter 2: Greetings
Chapter 3: Picture Time
Chapter 4: The Cap-seller and the Monkeys
Chapter 5: A Farm
Chapter 6: Fun with Pictures
Chapter 7: The Food we Eat
Chapter 8: The Four Seasons
Chapter 9: Anandi’s Rainbow

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